Contemporary Musicians, December 1989 (Volume 2)

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Term Paper Title	Contemporary Musicians, December 1989 (Volume 2)
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Contemporary Musicians, December 1989 (Volume 2)
by Elizabeth Thomas

Personal Information
Full name, Julio Jose Iglesias de la Cueva; born September 23, 1943, in Madrid, Spain; son of Julio Iglesias Puga (a gynecologist) and Maria del Rosario (maiden name, de la Cueva Perignat); married Isabel Preisler, January 20, 1971 (annulled 1979); children: Julio Jose, Enrique, Chaveli. Education: Attended law school in Spain.

Career
Singer, songwriter, solo concert performer and recording artist, 1968-.

Awards: Won first prize at Spain's Benidorm Song Festival in 1968; won first prize in Eurovision song contest in 1972. With approximately 350 gold albums and 100 platinum, holds world's record for number of albums sold.

Addresses
Home--4500 Biscayne Blvd., #333, Miami, Fla. l0004. Office--c/o CBS International, 51 West 52 St., New York, N.Y. 10019.

Spanish-born singer Julio Iglesias has sold more albums than any other singer in the world--over one hundred million as of 1984. He started out singing in Spanish and winning audiences from his homeland and from Latin American countries. Then Iglesias branched into singing in Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Japanese, and English, gaining fans throughout Europe and Asia, and finally in Great Britain and the United States. Though he did not catch on until the early 1980s with non-Hispanic American audiences--traditionally difficult for foreign acts--when he did, he broke through in a big way, filling concert halls in New York, Los Angeles, and other major U.S. cities. His popular 1984 album 1100 Bel Air Place included duets with many American music celebrities, notably the hit "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," recorded with country singer Willie Nelson.

Iglesias, whose full name is Julio Jose Iglesias de la Cueva, was born September 23, 1943, in Madrid, Spain. The son of a prominent physician, Iglesias had a comfortable childhood. His parents sent him to Catholic school, where his grades were mediocre at best and he did not measure up to the standards of the choir. Instead, he began to excel at soccer. Though as he grew older Iglesias became more concerned with his studies and aimed at Spain's diplomatic service, he continued to play soccer and earned a membership at the age of sixteen in the junior reserve squad of the prestigious Real Madrid Club de Futbol.

When Iglesias was about twenty years old and working towards a law degree, however, his hopes for a future as a soccer star were dashed by ...

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